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# foreboding

«foreboding» in Mova's school dictionary: **about to happen** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural forebodings)

### meaning for a pupil

A strong feeling that something bad is about to happen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreboding/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a dark feeling or a sign warns a character that trouble is coming.

### examples

- I had a foreboding that the storm would come. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreboding/#x1)
- Her gloomy forebodings kept her awake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreboding/#x2)
- The silent wood filled him with foreboding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreboding/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «foreboding» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foreboding/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.